My current research goal is making Pervasive Computing as ordinary to people
as Mobile Computing became.
To do so, I am working on an operating system for smart spaces and a development
platform for Apps for smart spaces.
My goal is enabling an ecosystem for Apps for smart spaces similar to the one existing
for smartphones today.

My current major research interest is in enabling Distributed Smart Space Orchestration.
I use the term Smart Space Orchestration to describe the use of software for
monitoring and controlling distributed sensors and actuators of smart devices within
physical environments (smart spaces).
An example is saving energy by switching all electrical consumers within a room off
once nobody is in anymore.

In particular I am interested in
semantic bridging of the heterogeneity of the smart devices and their communication protocols,
introducing portability of services,
providing a secure environment for smart space orchestration, and
reducing the complexity that is inherent to the realization of pervasive computing scenarios today.

During the past years I developed the Distributed
Smart Space Orchestration System (DS2OS).
It consists of the Virtual State Layer (VSL) middleware core for brokering and storing context,
a service management framework,
and different security mechanisms for effectively authenticating and authorizing entities of smart spaces.
The VSL provides an abstraction over the heterogeneous components of a smart space that is powerful and easy-to-grasp
at the same time, facilitating the development of software for smart spaces significantly.

Most humans love to learn.
They love to explore.
Learning can be supported by perceived success.
In my teaching I try to make students curious to motivate them to learn.
Since 2003, I am developing new teaching formats that enable self learning while
providing just enough guidance to reach the intended learning goals within a
reasonable time.

My first and so far biggest project is the iLab teaching format.
It started in 2004 and reaches over 100 students each year, resulting in more than
1500 students until 2014.
The iLab is a structured hands-on course.
The structure implements the behaviour of an "ideal" student.

It starts with a lecture that the student attends.
The lecture gives the theoretical background and some hints to the practical
usability of its content.

The next phase happens within an online eLearning environment I developed for this
course concept.
The student individually reads more background information on the topics from the
lecture.
To remain focused, the eLearning content provides multiple-choice questions the
student answers.
The immediate feedback tells the student if she reached the learning goals.

The third part is the practical hands-on with literally getting in touch with the
content of the lecture by oneself.
This part happens in a team of two.
The teaming is important as it allows both partners to work on the material,
support each other, and most important question each others steps.
The environment stimulates discussion, which in turn stimulates learning.

Finally there are two individual oral exams that require the students to look
at the learned material again with a little temporal distance, and in context
to the other exercises done.
This part aims to reactivate the previously obtained knowledge to better anchor it
in long term memory.

Another teaching concept I developed is recording all talks, the students give.
I developed a platform that provides the students their recordings timely and with
full choice on who may get access.
Seeing their errors is a significantly stronger feedback than just hearing about them.

A third major activity of mine is making the students create learning materials.
Teaching is an advanced form of learning as it requires deeper understanding of
the taught material.
It requires structuring a field, and focusing on the most important.
In my course the student teams develop a small iLab exercise by themselves.
This teaches the participants on how to instruct others well, and it provides
future students with up-to-date content.

Habilitation in Computer Science with a focus on secure and autonomous data
and service management in the Internet of Things (IoT).

2017-

Director of the MOOC activities of the of the Académie Franco-Allemande (AFA).
The AFA is a cooperation of the French IMT and the German TUM with the goal to
foster the scientific and educational exchange between the neighboring countries.
I am leading the activities for reforming the teaching by introducing more digital
elements.

2017-

General chair of Mensch-Sein mit Algorithmen / Being Human with Algorithms.
I am the leading organizer of the celebrations of 50 years German Chapter of the ACM
around the motto "Mensch-Sein mit Algorithmen". See
https://menschsein-mit-algorithmen.org/.

2014-

Head of the IoT Smart Space Team at the Institute for Network Architectures
and Services (Netzarchitekturen und Netzdienste) at the Technische Universität
München.

2016-2017

Advisor of the Board of the Munich Center for Internet Research (MCIR).
The MCIR is a research center of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
It carries out extensive scientific research on societal changes that go along with
the digitization and the internet and will give guidance on how to shape these
developments.

2008-2014

Research associate and lecturer at the Institute for Network
Architectures and Services (Netzarchitekturen und Netzdienste) at the Technische
Universität München.

2004 - 2008

Adjunct Lecturer at the Institute for Computer Networks and Internet
(Rechnernetze und Internet) at the Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen.

2003 - 2004

Teaching assistant at the Institute for Symbolic Computation
(Symbolisches Rechnen) at the Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen.

2002

Teaching assistant at the Institute for Modern Langages and Literature
(Neuphilologie) at the Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen.

2001 - 2002

Teaching assistant at the Institute for Formal Languages (Formale
Sprachen) at the Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen.

Community service at the childrens hospital of the Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg.
During my civilian service I established a computer-based workflow for the diagnosis of the newborn screening.
The new workflow replaced the so far existing manual workflow and led to a significant reduction of the time until the doctors got feedback while enhancing the quality of the feedback.
After the end of my service a computer scientist was hired to continue maintaining the system.

1998

Abitur (sehr gut, best possible grade) at the humanistic Kurfürst-Friedrich Gymnasium Heidelberg.
Major exams in Math and Physics, minor exams in French and history.
Languages: Latin (7 years), English (7 years), French (4 years).

1st Conference on Autonomic Communication Networks (ACN2013) at the Technische Universität München.
See the conference website.
ACN2013 is a training conference for graduate students in computer science.
At the same time it trains the participating PhD candidates in doin program committee work.
Student conferences using the newly established mode are held bi-yearly at the chair for Network Architectures and Services from now on.

May 2011

Future Networked IT for Buildings Workshop with around 30 international participants from industry and academia.

February 2009

Workshop on Knowledge Plane Mechanisms with around 20 international participants from academia and industry.

International Workshop on Service-Oriented Cyber-Physical Systems in Converging
Networked Environments (SOCNE)
in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies
and Factory Automation (ETFA) (2016)
Sep 2016, Berlin.

NOMS/ AnNet

IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management
(AnNet)
in conjunction with the IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) (2016)
Apr 2016, Istanbul, TR.

ETFA/ SOCNE

International Workshop on Service-Oriented Cyber-Physical Systems in Converging
Networked Environments (SOCNE)
in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies
and Factory Automation (ETFA) (2015)
Sep 2015, Luxembourg.

2013-2016
BaaS: Building as a Service
[author subproject proposal, TUM project lead]
Technische Universität MünchenThe BaaS project targets the need for comprehensive and open cross-domain management
and control services in buildings.
[ITEA 2 Call 7 12011 (14.6 MEuro, 22 partners). Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).]

2008-2011
AutHoNe: Autonomic Home Networking
[TUM project lead]
Technische Universität MünchenThe AUTHONE project developed an autonomic system for the management of home networks,
and the provision of community services.
[Celtic project CP3-003 (4.1 MEuro, 9 partners). Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).]

I have co-authored several project proposals.
I coordinated the creation of national (BMBF, BMWi) and international (EU FP7) proposals
as sub-consortium, work package and task lead.
I participated in multiple EU projects as work package leader, and as local project lead at TUM, as well as regularly contributing partner.

I organized some project workshops, several project meetings,
and numerous telephone conferences.

I have background in the public funding landscape as I participated at several national and international information events, including:

2011

Information Day on the Research Public Private Partnerships Factories of the Future, Energy-efficient Buildings, Green Cars, Bruxells, Belgium.

I am constantly teaching since 2003.
I enjoy working with students a lot.
Find more details about my teaching activities here.
Even though I am not a Professor my teaching activities include giving lectures,
creating, organizing, and holding exercises and exams.

As outstanding activity, I developed several courses and course formats
throughout the past years:

I created the most attended regular practical
exercise at the university of Tübingen as well as of the Technische
Universität München (more than 1500(!) participants until 2014).
In 2013 the iLab-concept was awarded with the Ernst Otto Fischer-Lehrpreis (faculty teaching
award) of Technische Universität München!
The continuously collected student feedback to the courses is always very positive
("best course I attended", "only thing I could really use from University" ;)).
The more than 1500 participants until 2014 speak for themselves.
With about 60 participants the iLabs are the biggest practical computer science
course that is organized without external partners at the computer science department
of Technische Universität München.
The iLabs are a major recruiting mechanism for talented students at the chair for network architectures and services.

I designed two practical hands-on courses that are continuously running at
multiple German Universities.

I invented a didactical concept for practical hands-on courses that is tailored
around an exciting self-learning experience for students.

I was participating as a consultant and trainer
in a multimedia student education project for Universities of Applied Science in 2005.
I supported the development of the eLearning DVD "Netzwerktechnik".
I was giving several training courses at different schools in the south of Germany for this project.

Besides the activities listed above I did several University related projects in the past:

2013

Design and realization of a portal for recording and publishing
lectures and talks.
The aim of the project is to provide students with better learning possibilities and
with direct feedback to their own talks via offering them the recordings of their talks
as strong feedback instrument.Have a look...

2010

Design and realization of two project related posters
for the Authone project at the chair for network architectures and
services at Technische Universität München.Have a look...

2010

Design and realization of the infoscreen, an
interactive public touch information screen hanging at the computer science
department in the public hallway close to the chair for network architectures and
services at Technische Universität München since then.Have a look...Background...

2008

Design and realization of advertisement flyers
for the new media informatics major at Universität Tübingen.Have a look...

2008

Design and realization of advertisement posters
for the new media informatics major at Universität Tübingen.Have a look...

2007

Design and realization of an interactive website
for the "Romseminar 2007"
by the functional analysis group of Universität Tübingen.Have a look...

2005

Development of the Content Management System (CMS)
miniCMS.Have a look...

2005

Design and launch of the website for the faculty of computer
science and cognitive science of the Universität Tübingen.Have a look...

2005

Redesign and relaunch of the website of the entire CS
department of the Universität Tübingen.Have a look...

2005

Creation of an interactive multimedia CD about the
"Romseminare 2001-2005" for Prof. Dr. Gregor Nickel as part of his
(successful) teaching award application 2005
at the functional analysis group of Universität Tübingen.Have a look...

2005

Editorship, design, and layout of the book
to the "Romseminar 2005"
by the functional analysis group of Universität Tübingen.Have a look...

2005

Creation of the interactive website and a
multimedia CD
for the "Romseminar 2005"
by the functional analysis group of Universität Tübingen.Have a look...

Design and realization of an interactive website
for the "Romseminar 2004"
by the functional analysis group of Universität Tübingen.Have a look...

2003

Design and realization of advertisement posters
for the Computer Science department of Universität Tübingen.Have a look...

2003

Design and realization of an interactive website
for the "Romseminar 2003"
by the functional analysis group of Universität Tübingen.Have a look...

2002

Creation of the interactive website and a
multimedia CD containing the course
material and the media produced by the students for the "Hypertext" seminar
at the department for modern language and literature of Universität Tübingen.Have a look...